>She's 5'0" tall and 219 lbs Was that a typo? At that weight and height she would almost certainly be clinically obese and unable to run a marathon. > What *all* have you been reading? "NeanderThin" and "The Paleo Diet," for starters. >I have yet to see any Adonis types. I was more imagining rock climber types. Very lean and ripped. Not exactly Adonis, but it's a body type I like. I have seen one famous picture (by George Rodger, called "Sudan, The Nubas") of a tribal wrestler being carried on another man's shoulder's after a victory, and that man very much fits the image I had in mind, but he may not be typical. >Some are short and squat, even a little portly looking. Hm... Are they actually fat? From the claims in the two books I mentioned, I got the impression very few were fat. Perhaps you're right though... maybe I'm idealising. I'll try to dig up the National Geo you mentioned next time I'm in the library. L